Deflationary DOT vibes 📉

Jun 21, 2025

The migration of staking and governance has successfully been completed on the Westend Asset Hub.
RFC #0146, adding deflationary pressure to DOT by burning 80% of Polkadot transaction fees on the Relay and System chains, passed a Fellowship vote.
DOT payments are now possible with more than 20M merchants in Southeast Asia, thanks to a new integration with AEON.

Acurast compute providers can now opt-in to battery status and percentage monitoring, visible at any time on the Acurast Hub.
The Astar dApp Staking program is now accepting applications from the broader ecosystem.
Integritee’s Incognitee Messenger app now features a privacy-enhanced ChatGPT, offering shielded AI-chatbot interactions payable in DOT, USDT, USDC, or ETH.
Umanitek is collaborating with The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children to deploy its Guardian AI agent in the fight against online child exploitation.
Peaq launched the Get Real Yapper Leaderboard in collaboration with Kaito. The top yappers will be incentivized with 0.55% of the PEAQ genesis supply over 11 months.
Mythical Games and OneFootball have announced a multi-year partnership for FIFA Rivals that will merge their communities.

For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.

🆕 new

Ref 1619: Funding the development of Pop CLI ($577.5K)
Ref 1623: Seeking feedback to explore an alternate direction for Polkadot's Ethereum-compatibility layer
Ref 1624: Funding the development of Lunokit ($49.2K)

🕓 confirming

👍🏾 passing

Ref 1595: Funding the further development of RegionX Hub ($49K)
Ref 1608: Seeking approval for the direction of the Polkadot Payment Card
Ref 1612: Funding the maintenance and further development of Subsquare ($444K)

👎🏾 failing

Ref 1585: Funding the development of Avatar Accounts which will enable Ethereum users use their ETH addresses on Polkadot without any friction (211K USDC)
Ref 1586: Funding Merkle Science to provide compliance and security capabilities to Asset Hub (100K DOT)
Ref 1587: Funding 1 year of Snowbridge development and maintenance (> 5M USDC)
Ref 1589: Funding milestone 4 of dAppForge development (108K USDC)
Ref 1590: Funding Gossamer for the Q3-Q4 development of Go, an alternative client implementation of Polkadot (815K USDC)
Ref 1591: Funding the Polkadot Community Foundation for 1 year (632K USDC)
Ref 1592: Funding a Pudgy Penguins <> Mubert Protocol Events Tour (81K USDC)
Ref 1593: Funding the development and release of WAGOI (660K USDC)
Ref 1614: Funding the Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship for 9 months (1.98M USDC)
Ref 1611: Funding the development of JAMTON (~99K USDT)

✅ approved

Ref 1573: Funding the Polkadot Community Foundation for the next 6 months of development, marketing, tooling, and legal costs of the Polkadot App
Ref 1583: Retroactively funding Gitorial VS Code Extension (1,660 DOT)

❌ rejected

Ref 1574: Funding the development of W3PI Token Index
Ref 1575: Funding milestone 1 of Inter Miami CF fan engagement campaign
Ref 1580: Funding the development and open source rollout of Epico — an Ethereum wallet compatibility layer for the Polkadot SDK

Mythical has launched the FIFA Rivals Creator Contest. To enter, tag FIFARivals in your content and use the hashtag #FIFARivalsContest. The winner will score their club’s 25/26 shirt, and the top three will share in a prize pool of in-game Gems.
Mythical is seeking licencing for ten community-owned Pudgy Penguins characters for use in the Pudgy Party app and promos. Successful candidates will receive $100 in royalties. Applications close on July 12th.
Web3 Foundation is hiring for several positions, including Technical Educator, Senior Investor Relations Manager, and Senior Software Engineer.
Fill out the OpenJobs form to be added to the directory so potential employers can find you.
Wave 3 of the PBA-X online Polkadot and blockchain fundamentals course kicks off on June 23rd.

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